Corpora: ACL/SIGLEX Workshop: Word Senses and Multi-linguality

[Nancy M. Ide]

                         ACL 2000 Workshop

                 WORD SENSES AND MULTI-LINGUALITY

Sponsored by the ACL Special Interest Group for the Lexicon (SIGLEX)

                 9:00-12:00 AM, October 7, 2000
          Hong Kong University of Science and Technology


The SIGLEX workshop on Word Senses and Multi-linguality addresses
problems of word sense disambiguation and delineation of appropriate
sense distinctions, with specific emphasis on approaches that involve
more than one language and the ways in which observations about
cross-linguistic equivalence affect our consideration of sense
divisions in the individual languages. More generally, we seek to
foster discussion and exchanges of insight in any area of
computational linguistics where a non-monolingual approach to word
sense issues is being taken.


                             PROGRAM

9:00-9:15   OPENING AND OVERVIEW
               Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA
               Martha Palmer, Univ. of Penn., USA
9:15-9:45   An Unsupervised Method for Multilingual Word
            Sense Tagging Using Parallel Corpora
               Mona Diab, University of Maryland, USA
9:45-10:15  Sense Clusters for Information Retrieval: Evidence
            from SemCor and the EuroWordNet InterLingual
            Index
               Irina Chugar, Julio Gonzalo, Felisa Verdejo, UNED,
               Spain
10:15-10:30 COFFEE BREAK
10:30-11:00 Chinese-Japanese Cross Language Information
            Retrieval:  A Han Character Based Approach
               Maruf Hasan, Yuji Matsumoto, NARA Inst., Japan
11:00-11:30 Experiments in Word Domain Disambiguation for
            Parallel Texts
               Bernardo Magnini, CarloStrapparava, IRST, Italy
11:30-12:00 DISCUSSION AND SUMMARY
               Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA
               Adam Kilgarriff, ITRI, UK
               Martha Palmer, Univ. of Penn., USA
               David Yarowsky, Johns Hopkins, USA
12:00-12:15 SIGLEX Business Meeting



Workshop Organizers

       Nancy Ide, Charles Fillmore, Philip Resnik, David Yarowsky

Program Committee

       Helge Dyvik, University of Bergen
       Nancy Ide, Vassar College
       Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University
       Charles Fillmore, UC Berkeley and ICSI
       Adam Kilgarriff, ITRI, University of Brighton
       Martha Palmer, University of Pennsylvania
       Philip Resnik, University of Maryland
       Evelyne Viegas, Microsoft Corporation
       David Yarowsky, Johns Hopkins University